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No. 123. NEW YORK, January 16, 1915 Price Five Cents.
HALF A MILLION RANSOM;
Or, NICK CARTER AND THE NEEDY NINE.
Edited by CHICKERING CARTER.
CHAPTER I.
THE WOMAN WHO FAINTED.
Nick Carter caught sight of the couple only by chance. His touring car, in which he was seated with his chauffeur and Patsy Garvan, his junior assistant, was speeding through one of the winding driveways in Central Park, New York, and heading for Fifty-ninth Street.
“Hold on! Slow down, Danny!” he cried to his chauffeur. “That woman has fainted, or is in a fit.”